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Normal Parturition - Anatomy & Physiology (view source)
Revision as of 09:43, 6 August 2008
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Similar to the cow, except incidence of twinning and triplets is high.
Similar to the cow, except incidence of twinning and triplets is high.
=== Stage 2 ===
=== Stage 2 ===
* Completed within 1 hour usually.
* Completed within 1 hour usually.
* Lambs nrmally in enterior presentation.
* In twin births where one foetus occupies each horn, one horn develops contractions before the other.
** Hence distocia due to simultaneous presentation is more common when both foetuses occupy the same horn.
=== Stage 3 ===
=== Stage 3 ===
* Placenta usually expelled within 2-3 hours after birth of the lamb.
== Sow ==
== Sow ==